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Things I did Got a new wallet - one of those adult things School is back in session, so the days have been going by faster Started a new book Gathered a lot of inventory and found neat ways to display the data Setup a TailScale funnel to...
Anytime a computer is connected to the internet, there are bad actors trying to find their way into that computer or see what else is exposed. TailScale is a great service that allows users to create their own private WAN over a VPN like...
just a quick update about how it’s going… I’ve started working again this week after a 2 week holiday break and it has been HARD. I’m still waiting for my rheumatology appointment on the 1st of September and am trying to get through the...
At first glance I thought I’d seen this kind of documentary before, eulogizing the golden age of movie palaces and the rise and fall of drive-ins. But filmmaker Rustin Thompson is focused on a different and distinct kind of theater...
Thomas Craven-Bartle, a carver who lives in southern Sweden, emailed me recently with news from a visit to the Bjäre Härads Hembygdspark (open air museum) in Båstad, Sweden. He wrote, “Up on a loft, there was a very small museum …...
Every year, starting around the end of the first week of August, the folks who live from one end of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to the other begin to count the days. This year is no different. It’s been a long, hot, smoky summer —...
Over the years, I’ve received different apparatus for cooking instant noodles. It started with the Rapid Ramen Cooker, a specially designed tray devised by a college student to make instant noodles easier to cook. More recently, the...
As I’ve mentioned, lately I’ve been pulling scattered emails by or about the late Dennis McMillan into a new folder. Need to find the snail mail, since it contains an early DMac sales catalog which I want to reference in an article on...
Colleen McClain and Eugenie Park at Pew Research Center: Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and...
If you go down to the woods today, a woman might kidnap you, rip out your stuffing, then make a coat out of your pelt.91 words · 1 image
Who did I listen to most this week? #lastfm says: The Cure (36), Placebo (34), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), Tackhead (18), and Kate Bush (14) [via lastweekly]
Scott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking together with Hendrik Kirchner. Here is how his solution works, or see Tenobrus’s version. AI outputs are not deterministic. The AI’s job is to pick the...
Massetognathus pascualiThere are fossils that appear fierce. There are fossils that look dignified, mysterious or magnificently prehistoric.And then there is this charming little Massetognathus pascuali at the Natural History Museum Abu...